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Paul Levine is an American author of crime fiction, particularly legal thrillers. He has written two series, known generally by the names of the protagonists: Jake Lassiter and Solomon vs. Lord. His novels have been translated into 21 languages. Wikipedia

A nationally bestselling author of 11 mystery novels, Ryan has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: five Agathas, three Anthonys, the Daphne, two Macavitys, and for The Other Woman, the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. National reviews have called her a “master at crafting suspenseful mysteries” and “a superb and gifted storyteller.”

T. Jefferson Parker was born in Los Angeles and has lived all his life in Southern California. He was educated in public schools in Orange County, and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Irvine, in 1976.His writing career began in 1978, with a job as a cub reporter on the weekly newspaper, The Newport Ensign. After covering police, city hall and cultural stories for the Ensign, Parker moved on to the Daily Pilot newspaper, where he won three Orange County Press Club awards for his articles. All the while he was tucking away stories and information that he would use in his first book.

James W. Hall is the author of 20 novels, the latest of which is When They Come For You (2017, Thomas and Mercer).

Fourteen of the novels feature a hardcore loner named Thorn, who
makes a meager living tying bonefish flies. Thorn, and his private eye
pal, Sugarman, have teamed up to thwart animal smugglers, cruise ship
hijackers, rogue medical experimenters, and other assorted villains. For
a man who simply wants to be left alone to contemplate the island light
and sweet sea breezes of Key Largo, Thorn has been drawn into a long
string of adventures to right wrongs and avenge the deaths of his
friends, relatives and lovers and has taken innumerable gashes and
wounds and scars in the process.

Hall’s non-fiction work includes Hot Damn! a collection
of personal essays he wrote for the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel’s
Sunshine Magazine, as well as some he wrote for the Washington Post and
The Miami Herald.

His second non-fiction effort is Hit Lit (Random House) an analysis of twelve of the most commercially successful novels of the last century and the dozen features those books have in common.

Les Standiford is the author of twenty-one books, including the critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean –a History Channel Top Ten Pick & the One Read choice of more than a dozen public library systems; Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America, and Washington
Burning: How a Frenchman’s Vision for Our Nation’s Capital Survived
Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army–both publisher’s nominees for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards; The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits (a New York Times Editors Choice); Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction that Changed America (a New York Times best-seller); and most recently, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles, a featured alternate of the History Book Club.

He is also the author of ten novels, including the acclaimed John Deal mystery series as well as the stand-alone thrillers Black Mountain and Spill (adapted as a feature film).

He
has received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award,
the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at
Florida International University in Miami and was appointed holder of
the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg for the Spring of 2016.

He and his wife Kimberly, a psychotherapist and artist, are the parents of three children, Jeremy, Hannah, and Alexander. They live in Pinecrest, Florida, in a home built of native Florida pine and maintained by the spirit of John Deal.

Carl Hiaasen is an American writer. A long-time columnist for the Miami Herald and Tribune Content Agency, Hiaasen has also written more than 20 novels which can generally be classified as humorous crime fiction and often feature themes of environmentalism and political corruption in his native Florida. Wikipedia

Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. His writing is influenced by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Wikipedia

New York Times Bestselling author Ace Atkins has been
nominated for every major award in crime fiction, including the Edgar
three times, twice for novels about former U.S. Army Ranger Quinn
Colson. He has written eight books in the Colson series and continued
Robert B. Parker’s iconic Spenser character after Parker’s death in
2010, adding seven best-selling novels in that series. A former
newspaper reporter and SEC football player, Ace also writes essays and
investigative pieces for several national magazines including Time, Outside and Garden & Gun.

He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family, where he’s friend to many dogs and several bartenders.

Location – Minneapolis

P. J. Tracy is a pseudonym for American mother-daughter writing team Patricia and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their nine novels include Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot to Thrill, and Off the Grid. Wikipedia